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lrzip
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ckolivas / lrzip

lrzip

Long Range Zip

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Long Range Zip

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Observed mentions: 2017-10-23 14:09:05 UTC to 2024-05-21 18:22:12 UTC.

01232017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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vmp·Oct 23, 2017
The next default compressor might be lrzip [1] by Con Kolivas; I've only see it a couple of times in the wild so far but for certain files it can increase the compression ratio quite a bit. [1] https://github.com/ckolivas/lrzip # 151M linux-4.14-rc6.tar.gz # GZIP decompression ~$ time gzip -dk linux-4.14-rc6.tar.gz real 0m4.518s user 0m3.328s sys 0m13.422s # 787M linux-4.14-rc6.tar # LRZIP compression ~$ time lrzip -v linux-4.14-rc6.tar [...] linux-4.14-rc6.tar - Compression Ratio: 7.718. Average Compression Speed: 13.789MB/s. Total time: 00:00:56.37 real 0m56.533s user 5m35.484s sys 0m9.422s # 137M linux-4.14-rc6.tar.lrz # LRZIP decompression ~$ time lrzip -dv linux-4.14-rc6.tar.lrz [...] 100% 786.16 / 786.16 MB Average DeCompression Speed: 131.000MB/s Ou
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tput filename is: linux-4.14-rc6.tar: [OK] - 824350720 bytes Total time: 00:00:06.35 real 0m6.524s user 0m8.031s sys 0m1.766s # Results ~$ du -hs linux* | sort -h 137M linux-4.14-rc6.tar.lrz 151M linux-4.14-rc6.tar.gz 787M linux-4.14-rc6.tar tested on WSL (Ubuntu BASH for Windows 10) edit: ~$ time xz -vk linux-4.14-rc6.tar linux-4.14-rc6.tar (1/1) 100 % 98.9 MiB / 786.2 MiB = 0.126 3.0 MiB/s 4:25 real 4m25.189s user 4m23.828s sys 0m1.094s ~$ du -hs linux* | sort -h 99M linux-4.14-rc6.tar.xz 137M linux-4.14-rc6.tar.lrz 151M linux-4.14-rc6.tar.gz 787M linux-4.14-rc6.tar It looks like XZ still has the best compression ratio but also took the longest (real)time.
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